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Deshazo Foundation F/K/A - Mitchell Industries Foundation at a glance

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Deshazo Foundation F/K/A - Mitchell Industries Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$271k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$165kHuman Services$98kArts & Culture$69kPhilanthropy$68kHealth$50kRecreation & Sports$25kAnimals$20kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $211k
$7,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$108k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA$30,000
THE LOVELADY CENTER$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$22,500
ALABAMA BALLET$20,000
UAB ATHLETIC FOUNDATION$20,000
BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART$15,000
COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF UVA$12,500
HANLEY FOUNDATION$12,500
ALYS STEPHENS CENTER$12,500
GLENWOOD INC$11,000
BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL GARDENS$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
BIRMINGHAM ZOO INC$10,000
ALABAMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$7,500
FIREHOUSE MINISTRIES$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE KING'S HOME: $5k → 7%THE LOVELADY CENTER: $35k → 16%THE LOVELADY CENTER: $25k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$424k · 17 repeat orgs$124k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
6

Total granted

$424k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+19%

Still filing today

59%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’24
EducationPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TA
    THE ALTAMONT SCHOOL
    2× · 2022–2024 · $101k · revenue +24%
  • FR
    FREEDOM RAIN INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +70%
  • UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • UA
    UNITED ABILITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +25%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • SS
    SECOND SHIFT
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +14%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Alabama Partnership for Children

To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.

Education
2
Voices for Alabama's Children

Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.

Arts & Culture
3
Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center

Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to ending child abuse through education, advocacy, counseling, family support, and the pursuit of justice.

Crime & Legal
4
Legal Aid Society of Birmingham

The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.

Crime & Legal
5
Alabama Alliance Network

The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking

Public Benefit
6
Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation

The mission of Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation (The Foundation) is to support the activities and mission of the Hospital (CHA).

Health
7
United Way of Northwest Alabama

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the community

Philanthropy
8
Greater Birmingham Ministries

To serve people, build community, pursue justice.

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9
Agape of Central Alabama Inc

As a ministry of jesus christ, agape's mission is that vulnerable and orphaned children find permanency in safe, nurturing families.

Human Services
10
Wings Across Alabama

To educate, empower, and improve services for mental health consumers in the state of alabama.

Education
11
Mothers Milk Bank of Alabama

Oversee and facilitate the collection, pasteurization, and distribution of human milk. Provide training and education for healthcare providers and community members about the health importance of human milk for neonates and infants.

Human Services
12
Uab Educational Foundation

To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Ability Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hanley Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF UVA: $40,000 · OtherCOLLEGE FOUNDATION OF UVABIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART: $30,000 · OtherBIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ARTALYS STEPHENS CENTER: $22,500 · OtherALYS STEPHENS CENTERUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $22,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAGLENWOOD INC: $22,000 · OtherGLENWOOD INCALABAMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $12,500 · OtherTHE ROARING GAP FUND: $10,000 · OtherBIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL GARDENS: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC: $10,000 · OtherLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Other+10 more: $40,000 · Other+10 moreTHE ALTAMONT SCHOOL: $101,000 · EducationTHE ALTAMONT SCHOOLUAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationUAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION+1 more: $1,000 · EducationFREEDOM RAIN INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM RAIN …Kings Home Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesKings Home In…UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $40,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …HANLEY FOUNDATION: $12,500 · PhilanthropyHANLEY FOUN…WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA: $5,000 · PhilanthropyWOMEN'S FOU…THE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC: $26,000 · Arts & CultureBirmingham Zoo Inc: $20,000 · AnimalsUNITED ABILITY INC: $10,000 · HealthPoint Washington Medical Clinic Inc: $5,000 · HealthThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $2,500 · Health
Other$239,500Education$122,000Human Services$65,000Philanthropy$57,500Arts & Culture$26,000Animals$20,000Health$17,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ALTAMONT SCHOOL: $101,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFREEDOM RAIN INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGLENWOOD INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBirmingham Zoo Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHANLEY FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED ABILITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPoint Washington Medical Clinic Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKings Home Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Monday Morning Quarterback Club: $5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOVENANT RESCUE GROUP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSECOND SHIFT: $2,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE PLACE METRO AL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPRESCHOOL PARTNERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Altecstyslinger Found…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Hill Crest Foundation…Protective Life Found…The Daniel Foundation…The Community Foundat…Dunn-French FoundationDebardeleben Foundati…The Maynard Nexsen Fo…Mike and Gillian Good…Alabama Power Foundat…The Hugh Kaul Foundat…
Altecstyslinger FoundationAL28.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Altecstyslinger Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Dunn-French Foundation · Debardeleben Foundation Inc · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Hugh Kaul Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Deshazo Foundation F/K/A - Mitchell Industries Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Deshazo Foundation F/K/A - Mitchell Industries Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Deshazo Foundation F/K/A - Mitchell Industries Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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